Ouverture en Ut à grand orchestre pour 2 Violons, Alto, Violoncelle et Basse, 2 Flûtes, 2 Clarinettes, 2 Hautbois, 2 Bassons, 4 Cors, 2 Trompettes et Timballes, composée et dediée a Son Altesse Monseigneur Le Prince Nicolas de Galitzin, Lieutenant-Colonel de la Garde de Sa Majesté Impériale de toutes les Russies . Oeuvre [124]. . Pr. [?f2, completed in manuscript]. [Full score]

BEETHOVEN, Ludwig van 1770-1827

Edité par B. Schott Fils [PN 2262], Mayence, 1825

Folio. Original publisher's dark yellow wrappers. 1f. recto title, verso blank), 1f. (publisher's advertisements), 60 pp., 1f. (blank). Title lithographed, music engraved, advertisements typeset. The advertisement leaf invites subscriptions to Beethoven's opp. 123 (the Missa solemnis), 124 (the present overture), and 125 (Symphony no. 9), and 127, followed by extended privileges of the King of Prussia and the King of Bavaria granting copyright to the publisher for Beethoven's opp. 121-128, with detailed prospectus for the journal Cäcilia, launched in 1824, to verso. First Edition, first issue, of the "Consecration of the House." Rare. New Kinsky pp. 810-811. Hoboken Collection Catalogue Vol. 2, 498 and 500. Hirsch IV, 393. Together with: Ouverture en Ut à grand orchestre . Pr 3 f. 36 Kr. [Set of parts] Violino primo: 1f. (recto title, verso blank), [i] (blank), 2-5, [i] (blank) pp. Title and final leaf loose. Violino secondo: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Viole: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Violoncello: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Basso: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Flauto primo: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Flauto secondo, [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Clarinetto primo: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Clarinetto secondo: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Oboa primo: 3, [i] (blank) pp. Oboa secondo: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank)pp. Corno primo: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Corno secondo: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Corno terzo: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Corno quarto: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Tromba prima: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Tromba seconda: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. Trombone tenore, trombone alto, trombone basso: 1f. (recto music, verso blank) Tympani: [i] (blank), 2-3, [i] (blank) pp. First Edition. New Kinsky p. 811 (without the Anzeigen). Hoboken Collection Catalogue Vol. 2, 500. Hirsch IV, 394. Spine of score reinforced with paper tape; edges dusty, printed opus number laid down to upper wrapper. Some wear, soiling, dampstaining, and browning, heavier to outer margins, especially of wrapper, title, and following several leaves of score, with final leaf quite browned. Some outer margins chipped, with tape repairs; occasional foxing, staining, and other minor defects. Lacking bassoon parts. Occasional annotations in pencil. A wide-margined copy, with untrimmed edges. In a custom-made half black morocco clamshell box with marbled boards, titling gilt to spine. The present work was commissioned for the opening of the Josephstadt Theatre in Vienna by the playwright and impresario Karl Friedrich Hensler (1761-1825); the overture is generally known by the name "Die Weihe des Hauses" (The Consecration of the House), the play by Karl Meisl after August von Kotzebue. The first performance of the overture took place on 3 October 1822, with Beethoven leading the orchestra from the piano. "That Beethoven should have conceived music so solemn and so little popular for the opening ceremony of a theatre is yet another proof of how deeply ingrained in him were the principles of the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The very use of the word 'Weihe' - consecration - suggests that for him the theatre was not so much a place of entertainment as an institution for the moral education of the public. We do not meet this attitude again until Wagner's Bühnenweihfestpiel, Parsifal." Cooper: Beethoven The Last Decade 1817-1827, p. 348. N° de réf. du vendeur 40513

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Titre : Ouverture en Ut à grand orchestre pour 2 ...
Éditeur : B. Schott Fils [PN 2262], Mayence
Date d'édition : 1825
Reliure : Couverture souple
Edition : Edition originale